Cultures of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Dates: Trinity Term 2010, Thursdays, 3–5pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History
Convenors: Pietro Corsi and Peter Harrison

Thursday 29 April (Week 1)

Noël Golvers (Catholic University of Leuven)
Scholarly Correspondence from the Jesuits in China with Europe (17th-18th Centuries)
Chaired by William Poole ¦ View Summary ¦ Download MP3 (48.7mb) ¦ Link

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Thursday 6 May (Week 2)

Elizabethanne Boran (The Edward Worth Library, Dublin)
‘Live and speake unto the Church, when you are dead’: The Correspondence of James Ussher (1581-1656) and Samuel Ward (1572-1643)
Chaired by Peter Harrison ¦ View Summary

Thursday 13 May (Week 3)

Alan Stewart (Columbia University/CELL, QMUL)
Writing Francis Bacon’s Letters
Chaired by Rhodri Lewis ¦ View Summary ¦ Download MP3 (41.5mb) ¦ Link

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Thursday 20 May (Week 4)

Henry Woudhuysen (University College London)
Writing a Letter in Seventeenth-Century England: Forms and Formats
with commentary from Peter Beal (School of Advanced Study)
Chaired by Noel Malcolm ¦ View Summary ¦ Download MP3 (79.9mb) ¦ Link

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Thursday 27 May (Week 5)

Stefano Villani (University of Maryland)
Tuscan Readings of the English Revolution: The Correspondence of Amerigo Salvetti and Giovanni Salvetti Antelminelli
Chaired by Nicholas Davidson ¦ View Summary ¦ Download MP3 (37.2mb) ¦ Link

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Thursday 3 June (Week 6)

Mirjam de Baar (University of Groningen)
Building Up an International Spiritual Network: The Correspondence of Antoinette Bourignon (1616-1680)
Chaired by Howard Hotson ¦ View Summary ¦ Download MP3 (45.2mb) ¦ Link

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Thursday 10 June (Week 7)

Dirk van Miert (Huygens Institute)
The Seventeenth-Century Culture of Editing Scholarly Correspondences: The Case of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609),
and Paul Botley (Warburg Institute)
The Letters of Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) and Richard Thomson (c.1570-1613)
Chaired by Philip Beeley & Jackie Stedall ¦ View Summary ¦ Download MP3 (49.1mb) ¦ Link

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Wednesday 23 June (Week 9). Please note the exceptional day and week of this final seminar in the series, which will conincide with the conference John Selden, 1584-1654: Scholarship in Context

Peter Miller (Bard Graduate Center)
Peiresc’s Mediterranean Merchant Network
Chaired by Pietro Corsi ¦ View Summary

Seminars, which are open to all, will be followed by a wine reception. For information about reaching the Faculty of History, which is located in central Oxford within close proximity to the train and bus stations, please see here. The seminar poster can be downloaded here (pdf). For further information about the series, please Contact Us. Letter image courtesy of the Library of the National Museum, Prague.

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